The new international standard of melamine content

No more than 1 mg per kilogram of infant formula. According to the Xinhua News agency, Geneva, July 6 (reporter Liu Guoyuan) The U.N. Food Safety Standards Agency, the International Codex Alimentarius Commission, said 6th that it had set new standards for the permissible content of melamine in food.　　The new standard stipulates that the melamine content in each kilogram of infant formula cannot exceed 1 mg, while the melamine content in other food or animal feeds per kilogram cannot exceed 2.5 mg. Angley Car Trischer, who food safety expert, stressed at the day's media briefing that the so-called Melamine content standard refers to the natural or unavoidable content of melamine in food, rather than the artificially added content.　　Any deliberate addition of melamine to food for commercial gain is unacceptable. The Codex Alimentarius Commission, jointly established by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and WHO, is an international Food Standards agency designed to protect consumer health and ensure food trade equity. The Committee held its 33rd session in Geneva this week to discuss the standard of melamine in infant formula and other foods, the residue of lean meat in pork and the hygiene of vegetable salad and seafood.